A crystal monster appears out of nowhere, and the whole world is in a panic.
　A crystal demon appears out of nowhere and slaughters people. Five thousand years ago, magic technology was more advanced in the world than it is now, and people relied on magic and the magical tools it provided.
　The species known as Frazeez was a natural enemy of that magical civilization.
　All magic was absorbed and rendered impotent. It has a high regenerative capacity and cannot even be wounded. Even the powerful magic released by the magic chariots and magical airborne paratroopers couldn't stand up to them.
　One after another, large cities were attacked by hordes of lower- and mid-grade species, and they were obliterated by the light of the advanced species' destruction.
　In the midst of it all, Krom Ranches lived in a small village in a corner of the United Kingdom of Piraeusra.
　He was accompanied by his beloved wife and child that he had obtained in this world, and the 'Black' and 'White' crowns.
　It is said that Crom at this time was trying to use his "black" ability to find a way for the whole family to return from this dangerous world to the world where he was born.
　The bottleneck is still the 'price', even if it is the creator of the crown, the Meister, it is no exception. The use of great power comes at a great cost.
　It's a price so high that just by coming here, he's turned from an old man to a young boy. I'm sure you'll be able to find out what's going on. It's a sure death that awaits you.
　I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to find a way to make it work.
　The Frays, which appeared everywhere in the world, finally defeated the armies of the United Kingdom of Piraithra and began to lay waste to the kingdom.
　Finally, their evil hand has reached the village where Krom lives.
　It is said that the flames that appeared in the village took the form of a human being. With red eyes and upside-down crystal hair, the male dominant species of Frase with a fierce and fearless smile.

''Gila, huh........ That bastard was pretty rampant 5,000 years ago too, wasn't he?''

　Listening to Albus, I thought about him. The dominant species I'd met after Ney. He was an arrogant, brutal, belligerent dominant breed.
　I managed to defeat him, but I was in a state of divinity at the time. Even though I couldn't draw more power from him than I do now, Gila must have been incredibly strong when she dealt with me in my apotheosis.
　Naturally, Gila began killing the people of the village one by one. It didn't matter if they were men, women or children, he was killing them as if he were enjoying the hunt.
　Chromium also fought with the "Black" and "White" crowns, but they were unable to defeat Gila. With a crown that couldn't use its abilities, that would have been unreasonable.
　Finally, Gila's evil hand was turned on his family.
　The moment Gila's particle cannon erased his wife and children from the world, along with Chromium's raging emotions, the abilities of "Black" and "White" were triggered.
　The powers of "Black" and "White" are not similar. By using them at the same time, it created an unstoppable outburst.
　It seems that the main focus was the power of the "white". In other words, the alteration of events.
　However, it fuses with the power of "black" which goes back in time a little, and at the end of its run, it creates a complex and bizarre change.
　Time rewinds and reverts back to the original state of the world's wards. As a result, it seems that most of the flames have been shaken back to the inter-dimensional space. As I recall, the dominant and advanced species were managed by Ende.
　On top of the flow of time that Chrome's wife and child died, events cut out of the world where nothing 'never happened' were overwritten.
　A storm of contradictions, contradictions that abound in the world. There is a result without a process. There is a result, but there is no process.
　For a while the world is said to have been swallowed up in a whirlpool of confusion. But the threat of the Frays has passed. The demon that had laid waste to more than two-thirds of the world had been cast out of this world.

'So,'

　Dr. Babylon pops his right fist on top of his left hand.

'Do you have any idea what that means?'
I was in a hurry to make some final adjustments to the frame gear on the day they disappeared, but there were parts on the floor that I thought we had put together and a checklist of things that we hadn't done yet. But then I saw that some parts were lying on the floor that I thought I had put together and I had a checklist of things to do that I hadn't done yet, so I thought I was tired and went to sleep. I thought I was tired and fell asleep.
'And you think it was because of Albus and Noir's ability to run amok?
What should have been one, two, three, four in a row is now not only completely disjointed, it's now three, A, three, A, and a different series, like D, five, two, gamma, and so on. It's natural that it's confusing.

　 That would be panic.

I'm sure Crom Ranches didn't expect the two crowns to run amok. If there was such a danger, he would have definitely put some kind of control device or something on it.

　As it turns out, though, the world was saved because of it.
　I heard that there were some flames that weren't shaken back, but I think they were each destroyed by the humans.

'More importantly... what happened to Crom Ranches after he used such an ability?

　Youmina said such a thing and looked at Golem, who had become her follower.

'Kromuha [Price] paid. I, the White Crown, Albus, pay the price for the memory. He's paid for the vast amount of knowledge he's accumulated over the years, his past and his memories.
Wha...!

　The price of the white crown is 'memory'?
　Memories are knowledge, memories, important things that make up a person.
　Does Alves' ability cause the master to lose some kind of "memory" every time he or she uses it?
　Memories are created every day. And we lose them without even knowing it. No, memories are not lost, they just can't be remembered, right?　Maybe it's a loose category for [the cost].
　However, there are some memories that one never wants to lose. Family, lovers, one's dreams, goals to be fulfilled... those things will disappear. They will be lost.
　In a sense, it's the cruelest [price] of all. All the compassion and trust you've built up will be lost in an instant.
　The friendships you cultivated with those who were your friends disappear. Memories of the people you loved disappear, and love is lost. Isn't that a terrible thing?
　Fortunately, Chromium's memories didn't disappear all at once. But every day, day by day, little by little, the memories are lost, like sand spilling out of his hands.
　He was able to protect his wife and child, but it was only a matter of time before the memories of those two and the knowledge he had acquired so far would eventually disappear.
　Furthermore, the contradictions caused by the runaway 'black' and 'white' didn't end there, but also bounced back on the crown itself, the golem.
　The contract with Chromium had become 'never happened'. Without the connection with the Master, the golems would lose their raison d'etre.
　Chromium never re-signed with the two crowns.

'Yagate, I have stopped functioning and moved into a dormant state. I don't know what to do with it.

　Albus muttered to himself.
　What happened to the genius Golem engineer, Crom Ranches, after that? The [Price] that restored the world's wards and created all kinds of contradictions would not have been light.
　If he lost all his memories and became a cripple.......it's hard. Or, having been able to protect his family, would he have accepted it with satisfaction?
　After that, I hope he was happy as he lived with his wife and children and gained new memories. Either way, Crom Ranches, the genius golem engineer, would have disappeared and become just a man named Crom.
　Contradictions abound in the world. But humans are resilient, and they are able to interpret and accept things that don't make sense.
　The destroyed towns and cities, the people who were killed, from these things Fraise was indeed 'there'. But now he's 'not there'.
　And the only man who can explain that has lost his memory, and so on.

''The 'white' and 'black' run amok.... The 'black' and 'white' run amok.......If you put it that way, that was a coincidence. The world really did not fall apart by a single scruff of the neck. When I think about it, I should be grateful to you guys for that. At least as someone who lived through that time.

　Dr. Babylon has a mysterious attitude. I'd like to tell you that it doesn't suit you, but, well, don't tell me.

"I've learned about what happened 5,000 years ago. And?　What happened to you guys after that?
"I do not know where I am after my death. When the system reboots, there is a young man who is my master. "Arthur Hernes Belfast, Deale.

　You can suddenly fly four thousand years from there.
　I don't know what Crom Ranches did with the two bodies. Did he seal them up, neglect them, or maybe he sold them off to someone else....
　If he had lost his memory, he could have done anything. The two golems are no more than mere "objects" without any memories or feelings for them.
　When Albus woke up, the place was a cave somewhere. Arthur was in front of him, and Noir was already activated next to him.
　There was a pile of glowing treasures around them, and one of the lower level dragons had apparently been defeated by Arthur, exposing its wreckage. Apparently, the two golems had been carried into the dragon's nest.
　It was a coincidence that Noir had activated them. The chest hatch had been left open, and Arthur's blood, which had been injured in the fight with the dragons, had fallen into the G-cube and activated it.
　Led by the awakened Noir, Arthur activated Albus as well, so that's what happened.
　Fortunately or unfortunately, Arthur was an 'adaptor' and became the new master of the two crowns.
　Arthur was apparently happy to have a useful artifact. That's like getting a tireless and loyal knight who follows orders like a squire.
　As it was, the two served Arthur for about ten years. Arthur, who was a prince, eventually became a king and was called a great monarch. At the time, Belfast was a small country and there were many magical beasts living around it, but he and the two crowns defeated them and expanded their territory by cultivating it.

''Heh. That means that the reason Belfast exists today is because of Albus and Noir?
"We are here to follow Arthur.

　People have history, huh? It's not a man, it's a golem.
　But even in Belfast, a dark cloud looms over the city.
　It all started when Arthur accidentally activated the Black's ability. The Black's ability to summon people from parallel worlds and manipulate space-time. That power has caused a rupture in the world's wards.
　As a compensation, Arthur lost several years of time and became young again, but he had to pay a heavier [price] than that.
　From the breach, the wards were broken and the Frays appeared.
　The wards were not broken like they were five thousand years ago. It was about a thousand lower-grade species that emerged from the breach, but unluckily, two intermediate species were also in the mix.
　Belfast's army went up against the Frays who appeared in the royal capital.
　One by one, the knights and soldiers fell to the crystal demon they had never seen before, and the royal capital was engulfed in fire.
　The lower-grade species could be defeated by dozens of people, despite the sacrifices they made, but the middle-grade species couldn't help themselves.
　Albus and Noir had barely managed to hold them back and maintain the status quo.
　In this situation, Arthur makes a decision. He will use his "black" ability to push the two intermediate species back to the inter-dimensional space. Even if they can't be defeated, they can be banished from this world.
　As a result, this strategy would succeed. However, there was one big mistake. When the two intermediate species were being banished, they attempted to fire the charged particle cannon from their bodies.
　In the heat of the moment, Arthur invoked his "white" ability to prevent it. He tried to cancel the intermediate type's attack. Black's ability and White's ability crossed at the same time. It was nothing short of the beginning of another excessive runaway.

I'm not sure what happens after that. I will not be able to function immediately afterwards.

　It seems that what Albus remembers firmly is Noir being swallowed up into the inter-dimensional space and the point where he was blown wide open and fell into the lake.

'Hmmm... perhaps, but I wonder if Noir flowed directly across the dimensions into our world. Noir doesn't have any memories, perhaps because it has been drifting for thousands of years?
It's not impossible. The flow of time is different from this one. It's a very good idea to have a good idea of what you're looking for. That would take a lot of time.

　Engineer Elka and Dr. Babylon growled thoughtfully. I turned my attention to Yumina, Arthur's descendant, who was standing beside me.

I wonder if Arthur is safe?
'They're in the royal genealogy, and perhaps.... The fact that these two golems didn't survive in Belfast's history is probably a result of the alterations made by the runaway.

　No, some of the Arcana tribe had left some of them in the old royal capital underground as records.
　Maybe, but I think Arthur himself lost the crowns and the memories of them due to [The Price]. I don't think the world-wide contradictions of 5,000 years ago happened as much as they did 5,000 years ago, and they were conveniently supplemented in Belfast, I think. You could call it a falsification of history.

'I feel like a long-standing blur has been cleared up. It's a pity that no knowledge of Crom Ranches was left behind.

　The Doctor muttered something like that, but I also felt that this was a good thing. If Chromium as a golem engineer had existed, he might have produced an even more dangerous 'crown'.
　Obtaining the 'crown' that demands a [price] can be said to be a devil's contract.


'I don't know if you're an 'adaptor' or not, and I'm not inclined to....... Are you concerned?
Of course. I'm not going to let you pay for my memory.

　When I said that, Yumina chuckled. I'm quite serious about it. I don't see how you could allow them to forget about us.
　If that happens, I'll use the power of the gods to undo it.
　Could it be that Yumina, who is under the jurisdiction of the gods (our), is not capable of reaching the power of [the price]?　In fact, even when it was 'reset', me and my uncle Kosuke didn't have a problem with it.
　No matter how much of a genius Chrom was, I don't think he could have stepped into the realm of God.
　But that doesn't mean I'm willing to try it, of course. It's just in case.
　I gently grabbed Yumina's hand and she gently squeezed it back as well.

''Don't.........''

　Norn's dumbfounded gaze flew at me, but I didn't care.